ROMAN ANTIQUITIES: OR, AN ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ROMANS
by Adam, Alexander,
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good with no dust jacket
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N Y: Collins & Hannay,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1830. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 496 pages; American edition, lightly worn brown leather with gilt stamping spine, red leather spine label lacking one corner, corners rubbed, binding solid. 496 pp. + 12 pp. Introductory material/table of contents. Pages with scattered foxing, heaviest on end-papers, and some pencil marginalia, light browning to edges; bookseller's sticker from Hilliard & Brown of Cambridge, "Ebenezer Wright" in pencil front free end-paper. Wright was a member of Harvard College's class of 1838, which included William Wetmore Story and James Russell Lowell. 23cm. Index .
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- Title
- ROMAN ANTIQUITIES: OR, AN ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ROMANS
- Author
- Adam, Alexander,
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Collins & Hannay,
- Place of Publication
- N Y
- Date Published
- 1830
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- ROME;
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....